Records indicate that Wilson has been jailed at least seven times since August 2016 on charges including theft, burglary, drug offenses and criminal mischief.

Woodbury Heights police have now tied Wilson to a series of burglaries that occurred about a mile from the murder scene. Officers responded to a burglar alarm at a Subway restaurant in Heights Plaza, on Route 45 at Evergreen Avenue, on Sept. 23.

Police then discovered four area businesses had been burglarized. Evidence gathered during their investigation led police to recently charge Wilson with four counts of burglary and two counts of theft. He was served with these complaints in Cape May County Jail, where he remains pending hearings on the murder charge.

Brandon D. Wilson, 19, of Paulsboro, is accused in the murder of Shawneeq M. Carter, 26, of Camden.

In the murder case, investigators believe Wilson broke into the home, where he lived as a foster child for a short period in 2015, intent on committing a burglary.'

He encountered Carter and struck her with a piece of gym equipment, authorities said.

Carter's 5-year-old son and another child staying with them at the Hopkins Street home found her body.

The kids apparently waited until the day after finding her to leave the house, Carter's father previously said. Prosecutors said security camera footage put Wilson on Hopkins Street on the night of Sept. 22.

The kids left the home on the evening of Sept. 23 and walked to a nearby barber shop, where they told a hairstylist about the death. He accompanied the kids back to the house and called police when no one answered the door.

Wilson is charged with first-degree murder, second-degree burglary in which a death occurred, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, obstruction and weapons offenses.

The killing occurred days after Wilson was released from jail on a drug charge in Pennsylvania. When he was charged earlier this month with Carter's murder, he was already jailed in Cape May County on other charges.

Wilson's adult criminal record includes five stays in the Salem County Correctional Facility since August 2016. In the 2016 incident, Wilson was charged with trespassing and obstruction when he was found in the same house where Carter was killed. Days before that arrest, he had been reported missing by Woodbury police.

In January of this year, he was jailed on charges of receiving stolen property and eluding police. In that case, he was arrested by Logan police after allegedly stealing a car in West Deptford. Wilson tried to flee from police when they attempted to stop the vehicle, but he was quickly located.